Indecent is a one-act play recounting the controversy surrounding the play "The God of Vengeance" and following it from its productions in Europe to its 1923 Broadway production, during which the cast was arrested on charges of indecency because of the lesbian love story depicted in the show. Indecent is a story of Jewishness, queerness, love, artistic freedom, homophobia, the dying Yiddish language and culture, the stories we've lost, and the need to create theatre and beauty even in the worst of times.